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Foobar2000 Talk:Encouraged Tag Standards

2005-02-17T16:52:42Z

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I recommend against using underscores in field names. Spaces are easier to type, easier to read, and equally valid.
--Canar.

Foobar2000:Encouraged Tag Standards

2005-02-17T16:51:41Z

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=== LAST_PLAYED ===
''Basics'':
* the tag-fieldname used for storing info when a song was played the last time is "LAST_PLAYED"
* tag contains date and time in the following format at the beginning: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" (with 24hours-format)
* additional info may be appended after the above info

''Reasons for deciding on this format'':
* the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/musepack/klemm/www.personal.uni-jena.de/~pfk/mpp/sv8/time.html APE-dateformat] (derived from ISO) is internationally neutral
* sortable
* easily readable and recognizable
* format can be verified with TAGZ
* can be included in formatting-strings without reformatting it (pro for amateur tagz-coders)
* choosing a new fieldname avoids confusion with the existing ambigious play_date tag
* tag-fieldname is easy to understand/recognize/remember and short enough to type in manually

''Code snippets'':

// verify tag-format (we check the pos. of the first dash and ":")
// using $len for verification is strongly unrecommended!
$if(
$and($strcmp($strstr(%last_played%,-),5),$strcmp($strstr(%last_played%,:),14))
,$puts(last_played_is_valid,1)
)

// disassemble the timestamp for later reformatting or calcuations
$puts(last_played_year,$substr(%last_played%,1,4))
$puts(last_played_month,$substr(%last_played%,6,7))
$puts(last_played_day,$substr(%last_played%,9,10))
$puts(last_played_hour,$substr(%last_played%,12,13))
$puts(last_played_min,$substr(%last_played%,15,16))
$puts(last_played_sec,$substr(%last_played%,18,19))

// display only the date of last_played (without reformatting)
$left(%last_played%,10)

// display only the time of last_played (without reformatting)
// the use of $right is strongly unrecommended!
$substr(%last_played%,12,19)

=== PLAY_DATE ===

Obsolete artifact of foo_playcount. Default format was DDMMYY. See LAST_PLAYED.

=== PLAY_TIME ===

Obsolete artifact of foo_playcount. Default format was HHMMSS (24hr). See LAST_PLAYED.

=== ALBUM ARTIST ===

A tag indicating the tagged album's artist. Use "Various Artists" or "VA" for multi-artist albums for clarity. This is the preferred method of handling compilations, DJ mixes, and the like. VARIOUS=1 and similar hacks are neither clear, concise, nor informative. ALBUM ARTIST handles all of these issues gracefully.

Foobar2000 Talk:Foobar2000

2005-02-17T16:47:10Z

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I'm using Mozilla and it displays correctly unless I try to select it. I think it's best to have the correct code in there though, even at the expense of this bizarre behavior. I avoided writing it like that because of that problem. Thanks. :) --[[User:Topdownjimmy|Topdownjimmy]] 23:07, 14 Feb 2005 (CST)
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I just put the code in the 'Basic Color Codes' section into code blocks for ease of reading, but found I had to use IE to do the editing since firefox couldn't handle the block chars in the edit panel. Firefox seems to display them fine though. Is this going to be a problem? Thought I should ask before I tried to do the same for the rest of the page. - krazy

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Thanks, krazy, for the link to picmixer's masstagger guide. :) I moved it to the end of the masstagger section because I think it makes more sense there.--[[User:Topdownjimmy|Topdownjimmy]] 22:45, 13 Feb 2005 (CST)

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Reversed order of discussion posts (newer at top). Thanks, krazy, for pointing out foo_looks was problematic.

--[[User:Topdownjimmy|Topdownjimmy]] 15:07, 13 Feb 2005 (CST)

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Removed references to foo_looks and replaced with foo_ui_gfx. It's just that I don't think a [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17872 potential troublemaker] should be on the wiki page. Other than that, looking good!

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Krazy, I moved your "Commonly Used Panel Extensions" down into the Columns UI section of the Beginner's Guide, I hope you don't mind.
-topdownjimmy
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Why use the underscore in the LAST_PLAYED tag? A space works just as well, is completely compliant, and is much easier to type.
-Canar

Foobar2000 Talk:Foobar2000

2005-02-17T16:47:00Z

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